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Nigerians on Twitter have rejected Benin Republic’s offer to become the 37th state under Nigeria’s federal republic. A few weeks back, after a closed-door meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari, Beninoise Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, Aurélien Agbenonci, said his country had offered to be a part of Nigeria. The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, gave these details to reporters on Saturday. “The President of Benin said as far as they are concerned, they…
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The government in Kwara state on Friday directed an immediate, but temporary closure of some missionary schools in Ilorin over their refusal to allow female students to wear the hijab. Mrs Kemi Adeosun, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Education and Human Capital Development, said in a statement that affected schools are the Cherubim and Seraphim (C&S) College, Sabo Oke and St. Anthony College, Offa Road. Others are the ECWA School, Oja Iya, Surulere Baptist Secondary School,…
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Controversial Islamic scholar, Sheikh Gumi, who has been negotiating with bandits across the country has asked the Federal Government to give bandits willing to make peace ‘blanket amnesty’ if the current security situation must be tackled. The Islamic scholar disclosed this on Friday while addressing journalists in Minna, Niger State capital after he visited the camp of some bandits operating within the State. He explained that some of the complaints of the bandits are that…
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The governor of Zamfara State, Bello Matawalle, has offered an alternative argument saying not all bandits who have been on rampage across the country are criminals. The governor stated this on Thursday after meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. He argued that most of the bandits take up arms due to the injustice meted on them by some members of society. In recent times, criminal gangs known as bandits have sprung up…
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Combat planes of the Nigerian military paraded the troubled Orlu communities in Imo State in a bid to locate and engage operatives of the Eastern Security Network. Several locals have shared videos of military planes hovering over their communities with reports of airstrikes and casualties. In one video shared by a Biafra activist Emeka Gift, military aircraft can be seen hovering above with the sound of chaos in the background. He captioned the video “There…